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“False Starts and Cold Snaps” is a double spoonerism. Maybe it’s so well known that it is assumed everybody will get it?

But to non-native readers that find out, it’s not so obvious. Given this is the first time I am outing spoonerism from your writings, I’m left with wondering how many are hiding that I lose “in translation”…

Hum, but finally the second spoon doesn’t seem to work. I may have been a bit too enthusiastic, unless there’s a real word, say from slang for e.g., whose translation I therefore cannot find. Because it really sounds familiar to me but can’t associate the second spoon with any actual meaning:

False starts and cold snaps
>stalls’ farts and sold [knaps]
Is there a phonetical word close to knops/knaps or anything alike?